sometimes when we look too close we cant see straight……. one day a friend said that “i  could not define something mostly by what it was NOT. hearing that caught me. for i love defining things by what they are not. for so often when something is defined by what it is our vision of it becomes boxed, thereby a wrong definition is communicated, and the hearer has a false expectation of it. so, i order for me to correctly define anything living, growing or abstract and new, i chose to define it by what is it NOT. it is possible that the best things in life are defined best by what they are not. they are so big and grand and beautiful and beyond….that i find it smallizing, limiting, unjust, and incorrect to explain it by what it is.and grace: try sometimes defining things not only by what it is in your knowledge and experience….. take the lid off and you may see a little more Read more...